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Less than a week before it was scheduled to take place, far-right Education Minister Naftali Bennett cancelled the participation of his ministry in a seminar on workers’ rights organized in conjunction with the Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI). The seminar was scheduled to take place on Wednesday, November 29, towards commemoration of this…

The Histadrut (General Federation of Labor in Israel) declared a labor dispute on Tuesday, November 7, following a decision by Capital Market Authority head Dorit Salinger to eliminate collective nursing insurance beginning on January 1, 2018. The declaration of a labor dispute by the Histadrut means that this organization can call a general strike after…

“Rehavam Ze’evi’s merits and achievements cannot be erased,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Tuesday, October 25, at a Knesset session in memory of the former tourism minister, killed by Palestinians in 2001. Netanyahu and others spoke to a mostly empty plenum, with only half the coalition and just a handful of opposition members present. The…

Lecturers at 17 colleges declared an open-ended strike on Sunday, October 22, the day of the start of the academic year, after failing to reach a wage agreement with the Finance Ministry and the Council for Higher Education. At the center of the dispute is a demand by senior staff at the colleges for a wage increase…

Adalah – The Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel – is demanding that the Israeli Education Ministry connect schools in an Arab-Bedouin village in the Negev Desert region to the national electrical grid. Adalah has sent a letter on behalf of the Wadi el-Na’am parents’ committee and the local village council, to senior…

Israel’s Internal Security Agency (the “Shin Bet”) has the authority to reject the hiring of “politically active” teachers or dismiss those already working in Arab schools, according to a report published in the daily newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth last weekend. According to the article, a former official at the Israeli Ministry of Education, Emmanuel Koplovich, related…

On Tuesday evening, August 22, at around 7:00 pm, Israeli Civil Administration officials and security forces arrived at the Palestinian village of Jub al-Dib, southeast of Bethlehem. The forces demolished the community’s recently constructed school building. The demolition, which ended around midnight, took place the night before the start of the Palestinian school year, and left 80 pupils without an educational facility. In previous years, the children of Jub al-Dib…

On Monday, May 8, 2017, four Israeli special patrol officers participating in a community relations program before fifth-grade school children demonstrated how they opened fire on a suspect even after he had already been rendered incapacitated in order to ensure that he was killed. A parent in attendance recorded the entire demonstration and posted the…

A conference to raise the awareness of and battle against racism in Israel was held on Tuesday, March 21, in the Knesset and was attended by MKs, officials from the education system, the police and NGOs. The gathering was organized by the head of the Knesset Committee on the Status of Women and Gender Equality,…

MK Yousef Jabareen (Hadash – Joint List) blasted Minister of Education Naftali Bennett on Wednesday, March 1, over the failure of his ministry to translate Arab pupils’ high school diplomas from Hebrew to Arabic, something which makes it more difficult for them apply to universities and colleges in Arabic-speaking countries. Jabareen (Hadash – Joint List)…